nothing against mohammed bin salman. the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom whose u.s. intelligence believes directed the operation that led to the brutal murder. trey yingst reporting live. trey? >> while the trump administration did sanction a handful of saudi individuals and officials, high level relations between the united states and saudi rain do continue. amid the new reports that the saudi government is compensating the four children of murder journalist jamal khaishoggi, the united states is doing very little to ensure the kingdom is taking similar actions in the future. a month ago, president trump's adviser jared kushner met with mohammed bin salman, the man that cia says likely ordered the murder. they discovered a peace plan for the middle east but no indication that khaishoggi's murder was addressed at all. an op-ed this week, fred ryan, a chief executive at the "washington post" called the response from the trump administration impotent and added that it was illegal and the response from the president himself gave the united states a bad view on the world

kushner was in riyadh on february 26 and met with mohammed bin salman about a number of different issues. at the time 100 forum, kushner was asked if the khaishoggi murder has affected his relationship with mohammed bin salman and other saudi leaders or what advice he might have given bin salman. kushner said the advice i gave was to be as transparent as possible and we have to make sure there's account ability for what happened. it's not the first time he gave him advice to be transparent. in october, as the investigation got underway, the national security, john bolton, talked to mbs and asked him to do that. >> shepard: thanks. sources tell fox news that the former vice president joe biden will announce this thursday that he is running for the white house and make his first appearance as an official candidate next week on monday in pittsburgh. peter doocy reporting. live in washington. peter? >> joe biden is set to become 2020's 20th candidate. he will explain why he's the best bet to topple trump. he heads to pennsylvania, which trump won for a campaign event at a union hall in pitts

here's the same son shaking hands with mohammed bin salman after khaishoggi's murder, the same mohammedwho our security forces say ordered his father's murder and chop up. the crown prince faces accusations of personally forces that hit who is an outspoke detractor of saudi arabia. saudi arabia is blaming 11 suspects, some members of the hit team. the washington post reports the trial has been cloaked in secrecy. the kingdom is accused of throwing off lower level officers. bernie sanders rolling out a medicare for all bill. he says it would make the government the chief financer of healthcare. 14 democratic senators backed the healthcare bill. that includes four of his rival candidates, elizabeth war len, kamala harris, cory booker and kristin gillibrand. it would change healthcare for all americans mainly by getting rid of private insurance and putting everybody under one payer. that means people that buy coverage on their exchanges or get healthcare through your employer would all move to a single government-run, single payer plan. even folks on medicaid would move to the new system.

>> there was some pressure to isolate mohammed bin salman. people not attending conferences in saudi arabia. you had perhaps even more importantly than that a renewed focus on the war in yemen and we saw resolutions going through congress here as well as in the eu about the war in yemen and outside support for the war in yemen but six months on and worse predictably, that pressure has just died because it's not being led from the white house. if the white house had really championed this, i think we would have seen broader international support for some kind of punitive action against prince mohammed bin salman and his role in this. >> and border shutdown. president trump is threatening to shut the southern border this week. some top republicans are urging caution, warning about the impact to the economy. steve rattner has charts ahead on "morning joe." ing joe. in the transportation industry without knowing firsthandness the unique challenges in that sector? coming out here, seeing the infrastructure firsthand, we can make better informed in

aggressively reported on the murder of one of its columnists, jamal khashoggi a vocal critic of mohammed bin salmanmed bin salman did not know about the killing of khashoggi. this morning, the enquirer's parent company calling the claims false and unsubstantiated maintaining the photos and text for its report about bezos' affair came from a single source. ami telling nbc news it was michael sanchez who tipped the national enquirer off to the affair. there was no involvement by any other third party whatsoever. earlier this month the wall street journal reported michael sanchez sold the text to ami for $200,000. while michael had said the story was based on old rumors. he admits he cooperated telling the new york post over the weekend he agreed to help secure a photo of bezos and lauren kissing in exchange for softer coverage but the plan didn't pan out. michael sanchez adding, i would never sell out my sister. everything i did was to protect jeff and lauren. sanchez's brother claiming an ami executive contacted him about the affair. perhaps a clue according to bezos' security consultant that indica

when it comes to the united unid states the cia has intelligence that crown prince mohammed bin salmand murder. the trump administration sanction ad handful of officials in november but continues to conduct business with the kingdom. canada also sanctioned key individuals involved in the killing but the crown prince continues to maintain high level global relations. he was consulted on the trump administration middle east peace plan and the trump administration continues to back saudi arabia in military action in yemen. despite the lack of answers, both crown prince, mohammed bin salman and the entire kingdom of saudi arabia goes about business as usual. melissa. melissa: incredible. trey, thank you. connell: the battle lines are being drawn over border security. democratic leaders sounderring the alarm. president trump's threat to essentially close the border. so how much would that move actually cost? james freeman coming in from "the wall street journal." >> i think that mexico will continue to step up like we've seen them do over the last couple of weeks. we hope that that continue

it is the first round of arrests of perceived critics of crown prince mohammed bin salman is ncthe killingurnalist jamal khashoggi. hajapan detonated an explosive charge on an asteroid 300 kilometers from eah. be dropped the small bomb to blast theic crater, from wh it wills. collect rock sample it could explain how planets were formed in the early period of our solar system. atching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program,e is the chief of the supreme court. why john roberts old so much power -- holds so much power. the man accused of the mass shooting at two mosques in new zealand has been ordered to undergo psychiatric tests. 28-year-old brenton tarrant appeared in courtiaideo link from maximum security prison. hywel griffith reports. hywel: during friday prayers three weeks ago, thisbe mosque me the scene of a disaster. it broughtn the world's attent to this normally quiet, sacred place. the man accused of carrying out the mass shooting has beeed formally chaith 50 murders and 39 attempted murders. 28-year-old brenton tarrant appeared via video link from the high-s

it is the first round of arrests of perceived critics of crown prince mohammed bin salman since the killingkhashoggi. vice president mike pence as the united states will impose sanctions on 3a vessels owned or operated by venezuela's state owned oil firm, in a new blow against the government of president nicolas maduro. sanctions will also be imposed on companies which transported venezuelan crude to cuba. and the government of the world bank has approved an economist from the us treasury as its new president. the organisation said the selection of david malpass followed an open and transparent process in which citizens from all member countries we re citizens from all member countries were potentially eligible, although he is the 13th american in a row to be given thejob. this is bbc news. the uk prime minister has asked to delay the brexit process, this time until the 30th ofjune. eu leaders however have voiced a reluctance to grant any extension without a clear plan from the british government. meanwhile, after three days of discussions designed to break the impasse, the oppostion labour

equipment is being transferred by trucks and empty planes are being flown to the new site on the mohammed bin salmanmillion passengers to pass through the airport every year, a number turkey hopes to double in less than ten yea rs, hopes to double in less than ten years, which will make it the world's established. —— new site on the sea of marmara. rolling stones front man mickjagger is expected to make a full recovery after hospital treatment, according to his spokesperson. the 75—year—old rocker has reportedly undergone heart valve replacement surgery. the band postponed their tour of the us and canada when the singer was advised by doctors that he needed medical treatment. in a tweet, he thanked hospital staff are doing a superbjob thanked hospital staff are doing a superb job and his fans for their superb job and his fans for their superb support, saying he is on the mend and feeling much better. the latest addition to new york city's cultural landscape hosts its first performance tonight. the shed is a mixed—use art space on manhattan's west side. it features separate areas for live shows and t

twenty seventeen after writing and broadcasting critical comments about the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman now according to c.c.t.v. footage which we've seen many times now entered the saudi consulate in istanbul at one fourteen pm on october second last year he was going into the consulate to get papers to certify his divorce he needed those documents so that he could marry his turkish fiance a teacher changes a teacher was waiting outside the consulate for him three hours later a teacher asked consulate staff where is jamal she was told he had left the building by a back door that took two weeks for saudi authorities to finally allowed turkish investigators inside that consulate and ten days later after repeatedly changing the story and even denying any knowledge of the charges whereabouts saudi arabia finally admitted yes he'd been the victim of premeditated murder inside the consulate building to hate international pressure on the saudi leadership specifically the crown prince andrew symonds. the cia may have pointed the finger of suspicion of mohammed bin so ruler of saudi arabia but

s killing on the orders of crime prince mohammed bin salman the president of brazil says he's working with the u.s. government dissents and fed as well as army. visited donald trump at the white house last month they were among the first to throw their support behind the venezuelan opposition leader one joe and his efforts to ice president nicolas with general orders call for the military's backing but the top brass remains loyal material. for democracy campaigners behind more than two months of mass protest in hong kong or facing up to seven years in jail they've been found guilty for their role in protests that bore sight hundreds of thousands of people who are demanding open elections for the city's leadership sarah clarke has reports. the the nine pro-democracy ladies lefcourt defiant despite being found guilty for their role in the umbrella movement protests in two thousand and fourteen. before the verdict was delivered they issued a message to the people of hong kong part unless we persist there will be no future thoughts about percy i think that's why we need to persist and get

operational within a year he identified this site and riyadh using satellite images crown prince mohammed bin salman has indicated that saudi arabia is interested in nuclear technology to counter what he calls the threat from iran. a former inspector and associate fellow at the stockholm international peace research institute he says the development of saudi arabia's nuclear program goes against its international commitments. sunnie arabia has been very slow to embrace the rules and standards that the i.a.e.a. demands they signed a nonproliferation treaty to not get nuclear weapons about thirty years ago they promised not to do that and they still don't have a real agreement in place for inspections and how to handle safeguards they've managed to do that because they've simply said we don't have any nuclear facilities or material so you don't need to come the fact that the crown prince has said that he would be willing to make nuclear weapons despite the fact he signed the nonproliferation treaty makes you very uncomfortable finding the reactor was just an interest of mine to to fill in some holes i

look at saudi arabia, where you have mohammed bin salman, who is interested in implementing economicm. is there more political participation? amb. djerejian: what you are seeing in the arab countries and regimes is the emphasis and the focus on economic and some social reform, but not political reform. i do not think any of these regimes are committed to structural political reform and when i took call, let's not even zation, word democrati but broadening political participation. i do not see that happening. tunisia is a glimmer of hope, has been a glimmer of hope because you had come into these yet, where the arab spring -- and islamistnisia party come to power, and when when the vote went against the party, they left power peacefully. the situation is still not stable, but at least that was a glimmer of what should be happening in the arab world and the middle east. , theical participation broadening of political participation, i do not think is the primary focus of the current regimes in the arab world. economic and social reforms are something there are compelled to do. david: th

and mohamed bin salman.ly possible by these actors against iran. and that those are even more possible as we come up on elections, obviously u.s., presidential elections are next year. this is important because it's something that the u.s. congress is also worried about with the trump administration. they've been asking the administration officials, secretary pompeo if the administration is looking for military confrontation with iran. and i actually asked the secretary about that just last week and pompeo said that, no, we are not. but he left the door slightly say jar. saying trump will act within authorities. understanding the legislation that puts control on such action. and essentially they have the authority. so leaving the door slightly open there which is noting weather. >> the foreign minister of iran proposing a prisoner swap with the united states. he says he has the authority to do it and ready to do it. that is an invitation to the u.s. in a very important invitation, because there are at least

2018 ami published 200,000 copies of this glossy magazine, glorified the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. and stocked at chain stores all across the u.s. >> it wracked at walmart. saudi arabia is the new magic kingdom. come here for your vacation, walmart shoppers. >> so let's chart it out. president of the united states can't stand the washington post and its leader jeff bezos. saudi arabia can't stand the washington post and its leader, jeff bezos. who are they both connected to? right in the middle of it, david pecker, american media inc. now we have america media inc trying to scandalize jeff bezos. >> the decision to run the infamous cover story could have serious ramifications for the tabloid. >> if federal prosecutors see this as a crime, that initial cooperation would get blown up and it exposes both pecker and ami to even possibly greater legal consequences. >> this is extortion. this is a crime. i think it very likely could be. >> coming up. >> i know where to go. that's why he sold the story. it had nothing to do with politics at all. >> the "national enquirer" made its name b

bezos and mohammed bin salman, the leader of saudi arabia met earlier this year.ed sour over the killing of jamal khashoggi, "the washington post" columnist. >> which jeff bezos owns "the washington post." >> exactly. the saudi regime quickly turned on bezos. you saw twitter accounts going after him, calling him every name in the book. now there's this, as you say, rather startling claim from his investigator. >> we have a portion of that. this is in the op-ed with gavin debecker, the head of his security team says, our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the saudis had access to bezos' phone and gained private information. as of today it is unclear to what degree, if any, ami was aware of the details. here is ami's response. they known the "national enquirer." the fact of the matter is it was michael sanchez who tipped the "national enquirer" off to the affair on september 10, 2019 and over the course of four months provided all the materials for our investigation. there was no voemt by any third party whatsoever. so michael sanc

the list includes mohammed bin salman's right-hand man. move also comes just days after saudi arabia arrested at least ten people associated with women's rights advocates, including two u.s. citizens. coming up, everybody, axios' nick johnson has a look at this morning's "1 big thing." coming up on "morning joe," the new warnings being raised about president trump's purge of his homeland security office. jon tester will preview his meeting with the acting dhs secretary and xochitl torres small will discuss her concerns coming up just moments away. ll coming up just moments away. you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mile look. reply all look. own your look with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or

they hadn't made a determination to determine whether the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salmanipartisan bill before this very committee to slap saudi arabia with sanctions, go after saudi arabia. the chairman of that committee, jim risch, has pud the brakes on that. he told me he's still open to the notion, but nevertheless, pressure billing as the administration continues to side with saudi arabia because of economic concerns and down playing the significant human rights concerns that are happening in saudi arabia. >> fascinating. dan? >> we're in the middle of the financial reporting season for the presidential candidates. so far the numbers are actually not that impressive. as julie said, bernie sanders leads the democrats with $18 million. the center for responsible politics noted they appear to be lagging from past campaigns. if you go back to 2007 in the first quarter, hillary clinton raised about $26 million. most of them for the primary season, some for the general. barack obama raised $25 million just for the primary season. john edwards raised 14ds million, mitt romne

senate passed a resolution condemning the saudi crown prince mohamed bin salman for khashoggigi's murder. in britain, prime minister theresa may said she will ask european leaders for an additional brexit extension after lawmakers failed to agree on either may's original deal negotiated with the eu, or a series of alternative exit strategies. may said she would enter into discussions with opposition labour leader jeremy corbyn to come up with a new joint proposal. britain is currently scheduled to leave the european union at the end of next week. in thehe democratic republic of congo, the u.n. is warning the ongoing ebola outbreak is spreading at its fastest rate since it was first detected. over 1000 cases have been identified. with a death toll of an estimated d 680 people, it's now the second deadliest ebola outbreak in histstory. medicacal workers say their effortrts to stem the spread of the disease have been hampmpered by fighting between government forces and rebels, as well as widespread public mistrust that has led to attacks on treatment centers. this is world health organizati

miaj also lled outared kuner direly over s clos retionshipith saudcrown prince mohammed bin salman >> i know therere a lot of werful pple. it would bcrcrazy if, i d't knowif there was a high-ranngng offial l inhe whaappsusthat could mband say, y, maybeou cod help tterson geout of pson because they don'tt servrve . but that would be crazy. that persowould have to benn the roroom, but -- it is just a good comedy premise. amy: jared kushner was sitting in the room. in russia, north korean leader kim jong-un has arrived by train in the eastern port city of vladivostok ahead of his first-ever meeting with president vladimir putin. kim is expected to reach out to putin for economic assistance, as the u.s. shows no sign of easing up on sanctions left in place after president trump walked away from a u.s.-north korea summit on denuclearization in hanoi in february. in malawi, public health officials arare rolling out the first ever vaccine for malaria in a historic pilot program that could save tens of t thousands f lives each year. the vaccine was launched for children in africa, where a chi

assessments we've suggested that the crown prince was behind the murder but he said his advice to mohammed bin salman was to be fully transparent and also to make sure there was full accountability jerod kirschner also deals with the question of immigration in the white house he says he'll have a new plan to present to the president in the coming days and he's also asked about the miller report which he dismissed as an investigation after a few facebook ads placed by the russians it was a lot more than that and jerry is aware of that but he says the investigation caused more division in the u.s. over the last two years than the allegations themselves and he insists that donald trump isn't a strong position to win reelection in twenty twenty. well u.s. president donald trump has met twitter's c. jack dorsey just hours after he launched an attack against the social media giant saying twitter was biased against him the meeting took place behind closed doors but according to the president it went great donald trump is a prolific twitter user writing on average eleven or twelve posts per day he often uses

ami published and placed on news stands a slick magazine celebrating saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. joining me now, daily beast reporting who has been covering the story. lo he was hired by bezos to sort of sniff out what was going on. >> he's actually been in bezos' employ for about 22 years now. they have a longstanding relationship. bezos basically turned to him and said find the people who did this. so he now has conducted this very wide-ranging probe. he's consulted with ate lot of sort of security experts and has determined that, you know, it's not clear whether it was hacking, but that through some means, could have been hacking, you know, the interception of communications, he even leaves open the possibility of physically possessing bezos' phone. that the saudis somehow gained access to this information. there are still plenty of dots that he didn't connect in the column that he published in the daily beast over the weekend and those are leads we're running down now. >> i just want to be clear here. >> yeah. >> what happens is the "national enquirer" has a big scoop. jeff

the arrest of seven people perceived as critics of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman marks the firstce the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi six months ago. clarissa ward joins me now. despite all this international criticism, including from here in the u.s., saudi arabia continues to target people who just criticize the government. >> that's right, jim. so far, saudi arabia is not even acknowledging this has happened. cnn has reached out to the saudi government. we reached ow also embassy in riyadh. so far, the only people confirming these arrests are several activists and people who are close to the cases. we know, as you mentioned, two people from the seven activists who were arrested are dual u.s./saudi nationals. one of them ironically is the son of one of the 11 women who were also facing trial for their role in their activism related to women's rights in saudi arabia and the ability to drive. i think this really speaks more broadly speaking, though, jim, to this ongoing crackdown to a complete lack of tolerance for any form of dissent, not even just dissent, but criticism. if y

one, my own naught is as i said to raef, is that salman more than mohamed bin salman understands the palestinian issue and has been responsible for it for decades within the saudi royal family. has always been sympathetic to the palestinian issue. he has reiterated in the last few weeks that saudi arabia's position remains the arab peace initiative that king abdullah put on the table, what, 17 years ago, and that he hasn't moved off of that. and i think that even if -- even if the -- the government of saudi arabia were interested in pursuing or supporting the american the initiative there are two issues that they would -- that would give them pause. one is the fact that there is, as best we can tell -- and if you look at jim zogby poll willing oing, there is zero support wrong saudis for that kind of initiative, and that even if they are prepared to overlook what the saudi population thinks, the fact of the matter is that they would be absolutely slaughtered in the larger arab and islamic world going down that line. think of what tehran would say andi and ankara would say. any cannot

. >>> mohammed bin salman ordered the torture and the killing of jamal khashoggi, "the washington postith a bone saw. i apologize for getting that wrong. the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the torture and the killing of "the washington post" columnist with a bone saw. >> so we're learning more about the role of the kingdom of saudi arabia and what it may have had in the hack and release of private and, issual tex messages between amazon eeo jf dws but it all comes to the quite simply think brother may have been responsible for handing over the private information to "the national inquirer." however, in a lengthy article, the man in charge of bezos' investigation, gavin debecker, had access to bezos' odding that the kingdom's notive was to retaliate against the washington, which bezos fop it is unclear if ami was aware of how those compromising texts were originally obtained. he does not provide any hard evidence for his claims, noting that the details and ruts of his investigation have been turned over to federal officials. ami dismissed the claim saying in a statement to cnbc wa

first round of arrests of perceived critics of crown prince mohammed ben simon since the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi. —— bin salman in birmingham in199afound inquest into deaths in bombings in birmingham in 199a found that a botched warning called by the ira contributed to the deaths of 21 people. the jury also found there we re people. the jury also found there were no failings, errors or omissions in the police's response to the call. vice president mike pence as the united states will impose sanctions on 3a vessels owned or operated by the venezuelan state oil firm in a new blow against the government of nicholas madero. he said sanctions will also be imposed on two additional companies that transported venezuelan crude to cuba. growing discontent in the country, fuelled by hyperinflation, power cuts and mass food and medicine shortages has led to the ongoing political crisis. president trump is visiting the southern border after backing off from his threat this week to shut it down. he's pledged to build another a00 miles of barriers in the next two years. earlier, he praised mexico for stepping up security in